HC Deb 16 December 1998 vol 322 c561W
Mr. Laxton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to publish lists for each region indicating the performance of each hospital in each waiting list category. [64006]

Mr. Milburn

Details of waiting lists for each National Health Service Executive region and for NHS trusts are published quarterly in "Hospital Waiting List Statistics: England", copies of which are available in the Library.

Mr. Laxton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to publish the patient waiting lists for each acute hospital broken down by type of operation awaited. [63999]

Mr. Milburn

Waiting lists for individual procedures are not collected centrally. However, specialty level information is published quarterly in "Hospital Waiting List Statistics: England", copies of which are available in the Library.

Mr. Laxton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what details are currently made publicly available for each acute hospital on the order of patients on a waiting list. [64000]

Mr. Milburn

For reasons of patient confidentiality, the names of patients on a waiting list and the order in which they appear is not made public.